What structural software are you using?
What structural software are you using?
(OP)
Just curious to know what software people are using to design buildings? Do you find some software particularly good for a particular construction (steel, concrete, wood, masonry) but not for others? What limitations are you finding with the software? Have you found a design flow that works well for your design firm? Please share.






RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
1. Reduction of errors at input time
2. General conservatism of the solution to not get designs with problems
3. Overall reduction of drawing errors and even omissions, since the program provides complete rebar design.
It also contemplates a nice bunch of international codes.
What above, coming from me, that don't like particularly this program, is compliment enough.
As of now I use mostly RISA 3D for steel work design, results to be drawn in Autocad or whatever. Since I bought it first in 1993 or so it has not produced a single incidence in steel work, and adapts well to the irregular setup of plans I have been involved with, mainly by setting the model first in an Autocad dxf model import.
The "by hand" work I do mainly through Mathcad worksheets that I produced in the over 2000 number range around the years 2000-2002; I find comfy the ability of invariably soundly treat the engineering units as provided by default by Mathcad, and the sheer investment I did in producing the worksheets paid -if not always in money, that is entirely another equation- in better understanding of the problems therein dealt with.
I am able to use and in fact use for some projects some dozens of other programs, but these are the mainstays of my structural work when I have to do some design.
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
RAM Elements
Excel Spreadsheets
RE: What structural software are you using?
Staad for analysis
PDS for 3d modeling
Tekla for 3d modeling depending on the project
Smartplant for 3d viewer
Lasergen for 3d viewer of existing structures
Microstation for 2d drafting
Descon for connection
Foundation3d and Mat3d for foundation
Staad Foundation for foundation
spColumn, spBeam, spSlab
RisaBase
RE: What structural software are you using?
http://www.sodaspace.ca/
BA
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
SAP2000 for general analysis
Woodworks
Concise for PC beams
Excel spreadsheets for various items
Autocad
Tekla Structures
Brad
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
There are days when I wake up feeling like the dumbest man on the planet, then there are days when I confirm it.
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
There are days when I wake up feeling like the dumbest man on the planet, then there are days when I confirm it.
RE: What structural software are you using?
RISA 3D & Foot
Dcalc (ms dos, ugh)
Tedds
Pilebuck
excel
current job:
mathcad
excel
RE: What structural software are you using?
RE: What structural software are you using?
I don't know anything about Ram software but I don't understand why you would use a computer program for that type of analysis. That would seem to be a problem to be solved by hand methods.
BA